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<title><![CDATA[Hitting the Roof!]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1261381167&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Upcoming legislation in the House of Representatives will raise the debt ceiling to more than 12 Trillion Dollars - about three-quarters of the Nation's gross domestic product (GDP).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:39:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Healtcare Reaches a Precipice]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate has passed one of the last hurdles in its efforts to cope with the overwhelming issue of health care in America by a 60-40 party line vote at 1AM today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:30:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Failed Banks Exceeds 100]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<P>The FDIC's failed bank list has now officially exceeded 100 institutions for 2009.</P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:02:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dow at Ten Thousand]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This week the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached and slightly exceeded 10,000, closing two straight days above it. What will it really mean?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:45:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Irrational Euphoria]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1255399095&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[They say that stock markets predict economic conditions six months before the conditions impact the overall economy.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:58:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Afghan Conundrum]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1255397379&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The mountainous region we know as Afghanistan has been the graveyard of empires since the days of Alexander the Great.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:29:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Politics of Health in America]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1255394131&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Our healthcare system is beginning to sound more and more like a vast conspiracy theory, more than medical care.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:35:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Recession is Over? But the Depression Goes On!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some exuberantly optimistic economists are now saying that the recession is over. What do we think?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:02:26 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What Cost Samples?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite new regulations from the Food &amp; Drug Administration, doctors continue to dispense millions of samples every day to patients around the United States. Are those samples truly free, or are there costs to pay?

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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:48:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bonds You Say?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On March 26th, The Institute's Journal of Economics published an article entitled "Any Bonds Today?" Now the government is promoting Bailout Bonds. We wonder if the Journal had any influence?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:08:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ratings, Ratings, Who's Got the Ratings?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This week, both Moody's Investor Services and S&amp;P have published negative ratings that will have no other effect but to harm any recovery efforts being undertaken by government. Wise move or pure insanity?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:37:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lubricating Bank Credit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When the gears of a machine are out of alignment, mechanics adjust the gears and lubricate them, allowing the gears to flow more freely. So too, the gears of our economy need a mechanical adjustment. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:40:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Like a Hell-broth Boil and Bubble]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1237508161&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble, this witches brew it does o&#8217;er take, truth and liberty to forsake. Witches brew and media make, a boiling cauldron at the stake. Doth Geithner go or Geithner stay, this hell-cooked brew may rue the day.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:16:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Clearinghouse 101]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1237467804&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[When companies, whether in the fields of finance, banking or insurance, or for that matter, any other industry, create new types of financial instruments, should they be immediately subject to regulatory review?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:03:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Assessment of Risk]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it ironic that a firm such as AIG, with so many expert and professional insurance risk analysts would engage in the riskiest form of insurance ever created? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:04:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The House of Cards]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The wind blows hard on a house made of cards, or so Bernie Madoff and his family are discovering.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:01:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Roadmap to a Cure]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1236903885&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[<P>In all the talk about bailouts, markets, toxic assets and government intervention heard in the media, none of the pundits or media moghuls have noticed that there isn't a real cure, only band-aid solutions. Let's look at a cure. </P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:24:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[To Market... To Market...]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1236658848&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The most commonly asked question on Wall Street and Main Street these days is "How low can the market go?"]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:20:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dow Flirts with 7,000]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1235783628&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The DOW yesterday reached 7,062.93 only a month and a week after the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:13:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Threat]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1235781078&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[<P>As the economies of the world suffer grave consequences of bank crises and global deleveraging, a major threat is rising, not so quietly.</P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:18 -0500</pubDate>
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